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How many people at Google actually work in search? While I was at CMU, interviewing at google, etc. I probably interacted with tens of Googler's, but never a search person. My intuition is that its a very small, elite group of engineers and getting in is very hard.

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We typically don't release the exact numbers of people that work on projects, but I've believe we've said in the past that hundreds of engineers work on search quality.

Eric Schmidt said he chose a 70/20/10 model to organize 70% of its resources to "core search and ads," 20% to related interesting businesses, and 10% to new ideas. Since 2005, though, some other businesses may have entered the "core" 70% (http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Google-Reveals-Its-P...).

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